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    Quote Originally Posted by Otley View Post
    Lewis was and is one of the Greatest heavyweights in history....he beat everyone he fought and would have beaten Wlad much easier if he had trained for him when they fought...Wlad did very well against Lewis due to a few factors

    1. Lewis was suppose to fight someone easier that night
    2. Lewis under trained
    3. Lewis was in that retirement zone

    fact is Wlad would have had a very hard nite if Lewis was at his best....Lewis is a true Great and the Klits ARE NOT

    job biscuit (anyone got a punture repair kit)!!!

    eh eh!!
    sorry but Ocean's Eleven wasn't a real fight, Vitali fought Lewis, Wlad didn't, and you can make as many excuses as you want for Lennox but Vitali was getting the best of him once the stoppage came along, and although Lewis has a good resume, the Klitschko's have cleaned out the HW division Lewis did not, he didn't fight other top guys like Ruiz, Byrd, Toney, etc. at the end of his career, and when finally someone was able to go tooth and nail with him he decided to quit, the fact that Vitali retired and came back to have the post retirement career he has against mostly top opposition put's him on par with ANY recent HW champ including Lewis same goes for Wlad

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    Quote Originally Posted by ElTerribleMorales View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Otley View Post
    Lewis was and is one of the Greatest heavyweights in history....he beat everyone he fought and would have beaten Wlad much easier if he had trained for him when they fought...Wlad did very well against Lewis due to a few factors

    1. Lewis was suppose to fight someone easier that night
    2. Lewis under trained
    3. Lewis was in that retirement zone

    fact is Wlad would have had a very hard nite if Lewis was at his best....Lewis is a true Great and the Klits ARE NOT

    job biscuit (anyone got a punture repair kit)!!!

    eh eh!!
    sorry but Ocean's Eleven wasn't a real fight, Vitali fought Lewis, Wlad didn't, and you can make as many excuses as you want for Lennox but Vitali was getting the best of him once the stoppage came along, and although Lewis has a good resume, the Klitschko's have cleaned out the HW division Lewis did not, he didn't fight other top guys like Ruiz, Byrd, Toney, etc. at the end of his career, and when finally someone was able to go tooth and nail with him he decided to quit, the fact that Vitali retired and came back to have the post retirement career he has against mostly top opposition put's him on par with ANY recent HW champ including Lewis same goes for Wlad
    Lol. Ruiz and Byrd? Are you serious?

    The guys who were both very fortunate not to have 'L's next to thier names after fighting a man Lewis put away in one round?

    And James Toney was good but not a realistic threat at the time, nor worth a great deal of money.

    And Lewis quit at what? 37 38, that's not young and he did his thing without a lengthy break like Vitali. That break and what ever surgery, physio and god knows what elseio he had during this time did Vitali the world of good and obviously added years to his career but it really has nothing to do with who is better as you could see when he fought previous Lewis victim Briggs.
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    Default Re: how good was lennox lewis

    Quote Originally Posted by ElTerribleMorales View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Otley View Post
    Lewis was and is one of the Greatest heavyweights in history....he beat everyone he fought and would have beaten Wlad much easier if he had trained for him when they fought...Wlad did very well against Lewis due to a few factors

    1. Lewis was suppose to fight someone easier that night
    2. Lewis under trained
    3. Lewis was in that retirement zone

    fact is Wlad would have had a very hard nite if Lewis was at his best....Lewis is a true Great and the Klits ARE NOT

    job biscuit (anyone got a punture repair kit)!!!

    eh eh!!
    sorry but Ocean's Eleven wasn't a real fight, Vitali fought Lewis, Wlad didn't, and you can make as many excuses as you want for Lennox but Vitali was getting the best of him once the stoppage came along, and although Lewis has a good resume, the Klitschko's have cleaned out the HW division Lewis did not, he didn't fight other top guys like Ruiz, Byrd, Toney, etc. at the end of his career, and when finally someone was able to go tooth and nail with him he decided to quit, the fact that Vitali retired and came back to have the post retirement career he has against mostly top opposition put's him on par with ANY recent HW champ including Lewis same goes for Wlad
    Look at their faces at the end of that fight and then repeat that comment with a straight face.

    Technically, yes Vitali was ahead in rounds on the judges scorecards, but Lewis inflicted so much damage that Vitali needed something like 50 stitches and could not continue. That, for me, is far more of an indicator that the round score after 6 rounds in showing who was winiing/won that fight.

    And to suggest that Byrd and Ruiz and former 160 pound James Toney were better than the likes of Morrison, McCall, Tua, Tucker, Mercer, a Golota that had just taken Bowe to pieces twice, is laughable
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    Default Re: how good was lennox lewis

    We never got the chance see how he was

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    He was great at holding and hitting, rabbit punching, backhanding and had a great jab. He had very little stamina, was weak-chinned, but had a very good looping overhand right.

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    When did he display a weak chin? Other than being dropped by heavy shots I can't really think of a time when he was stunned by weak shots, staggered or tipping about like a drunken sailor. Can't believe we're on at at this old chestnut again...

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    Quote Originally Posted by brocktonblockbust View Post
    He was great at holding and hitting, rabbit punching, backhanding and had a great jab. He had very little stamina, was weak-chinned, but had a very good looping overhand right.
    Weak chin?!
    Stop talking crap fella
    Those punches that felled lewis would have dropped any human being.
    Lewis bounced back from those defeats and reversed them.
    He had closure.. Unlike khan.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BIG H View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by ElTerribleMorales View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Otley View Post
    Lewis was and is one of the Greatest heavyweights in history....he beat everyone he fought and would have beaten Wlad much easier if he had trained for him when they fought...Wlad did very well against Lewis due to a few factors

    1. Lewis was suppose to fight someone easier that night
    2. Lewis under trained
    3. Lewis was in that retirement zone

    fact is Wlad would have had a very hard nite if Lewis was at his best....Lewis is a true Great and the Klits ARE NOT

    job biscuit (anyone got a punture repair kit)!!!

    eh eh!!
    sorry but Ocean's Eleven wasn't a real fight, Vitali fought Lewis, Wlad didn't, and you can make as many excuses as you want for Lennox but Vitali was getting the best of him once the stoppage came along, and although Lewis has a good resume, the Klitschko's have cleaned out the HW division Lewis did not, he didn't fight other top guys like Ruiz, Byrd, Toney, etc. at the end of his career, and when finally someone was able to go tooth and nail with him he decided to quit, the fact that Vitali retired and came back to have the post retirement career he has against mostly top opposition put's him on par with ANY recent HW champ including Lewis same goes for Wlad
    Look at their faces at the end of that fight and then repeat that comment with a straight face.

    Technically, yes Vitali was ahead in rounds on the judges scorecards, but Lewis inflicted so much damage that Vitali needed something like 50 stitches and could not continue. That, for me, is far more of an indicator that the round score after 6 rounds in showing who was winiing/won that fight.

    And to suggest that Byrd and Ruiz and former 160 pound James Toney were better than the likes of Morrison, McCall, Tua, Tucker, Mercer, a Golota that had just taken Bowe to pieces twice, is laughable
    don't really see how it's laughable, seeing how both Ruiz and Byrd did a hell of a lot more than Haye, yet everyone kept trying to play him up as if it was a must do fight for Wlad, whose resume is already stacked, lets face it apart from an old Holyfield, the heavies that Lewis pounded out are just as mediocre as the ones that Wlad and Vitali have stopped, Tua never even won a title hell his ONLY title shot was against Lewis, and well McCall, Morrison, Tucker, Mercer, and well Golota are the Arreola, Chagaev, Haye, Peter, Brewster, and McCline of yesteryear, they did enough to win or challenge for belts yet when they fought actual talent they were stomped

    IMO Lewis and ATG don't go together, he doesn't even crack my top 10 yet neither do the Klitschko's

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    Lewis ducked Ruiz, Byrd and Toney?

    Lets get some things in perspective.

    1. No-one gave a shit about Lewis-Byrd. Don King, Byrd's promoter, paid Lewis $1million dollars to give up the IBF title, so Byrd-Holyfield could happen, whilst Lewis was contemplating retirement.

    2. Ruiz turned down a Lewis fight on the date he fought Grant. Then got himself involved in the Holyfield WBA shit and lost to Jones. Ruiz being a serious challenger to Lewis is ridiculous.

    3. Lewis basically retired after beating Tyson. He was only hanging around for a possible Tyson rematch and massive $30 million pot.

    The date Lewis fought Vitali on was originally meant to be a Lewis/Tyson doubleheader. Tyson-Maskaev, Lewis-Johnson HBO PPV. However, Tyson pulled out. This is when Klitschko came into the picture. He fights on Lewis's undercard to set up a POSSIBLE match between the two. But Johnson pulls out so Lewis accepts Klitschko (to stop himself losing a fortune on the promotion).

    For people that say they had the same preperation is just ridiculous.

    Vitali was 31, a young hungry challenger trying to redeem the Klitschko name. He was seen as a coward. Wlad had just been splattered by Sanders. Lewis was 38, hadn't fought for a year, and spent that time contemplating retirement. Clearly their careers were in completely opposite places. Vitali was entering the fight of his life, with everything to gain and nothing to lose. Lewis was trying to save himself from losing a fortune against a guy that meant nothing to him.

    Had Lewis lost there's no doubt there would have been a rematch. He didn't. And didn't need to prove anything against a fighter from a different generation to him.
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    sorry but Ocean's Eleven wasn't a real fight, Vitali fought Lewis, Wlad didn't, and you can make as many excuses as you want for Lennox but Vitali was getting the best of him once the stoppage came along, and although Lewis has a good resume, the Klitschko's have cleaned out the HW division Lewis did not, he didn't fight other top guys like Ruiz, Byrd, Toney, etc. at the end of his career, and when finally someone was able to go tooth and nail with him he decided to quit, the fact that Vitali retired and came back to have the post retirement career he has against mostly top opposition put's him on par with ANY recent HW champ including Lewis same goes for Wlad

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    Instead of regurgitating the opinions of haters and fair weather fans... why don't you watch some of his career and form your opinion on what you see with your own eyes... not what you read or hear from others.
    what a stupid assumption you make. Only one regurgitating here is YOU. I couldnt give a rat's ass about haters and fair weather friends. This IS my opinion. YOu need to see a shrink seeing the delusions you are under about where people get their opinions.

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    the only fighters in history who would challenge lewis for the best in history would be the klits

    ......disturbingly delusional.

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    Quote Originally Posted by brocktonblockbust View Post
    Instead of regurgitating the opinions of haters and fair weather fans... why don't you watch some of his career and form your opinion on what you see with your own eyes... not what you read or hear from others.
    what a stupid assumption you make. Only one regurgitating here is YOU. I couldnt give a rat's ass about haters and fair weather friends. This IS my opinion. YOu need to see a shrink seeing the delusions you are under about where people get their opinions.

    Forget seeing a shrink... If you've just watched a 10 minute video of a guy getting punched by heavyweight boxers and walking through it and you still think he has a glass jaw then you either you need to see an optician or you need to stop deluding yourself -

    You've just watched ten minutes of him getting his chin checked dozens and dozens of times. The evidence to form an accurate opinion is there. You're deluding yourself into thinking that you're not just parroting the opinion of haters who kicked a guy when he's down.... boxing sheeple ate that shit up and so have you.

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    I'm sure you just make this shit up. Mavrovic never landed a glove on him.
    Raucously hysterical that. See you were quite drunk that night, then.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fenster View Post
    Lewis ducked Ruiz, Byrd and Toney?

    Lets get some things in perspective.

    1. No-one gave a shit about Lewis-Byrd. Don King, Byrd's promoter, paid Lewis $1million dollars to give up the IBF title, so Byrd-Holyfield could happen, whilst Lewis was contemplating retirement.

    2. Ruiz turned down a Lewis fight on the date he fought Grant. Then got himself involved in the Holyfield WBA shit and lost to Jones. Ruiz being a serious challenger to Lewis is ridiculous.

    3. Lewis basically retired after beating Tyson. He was only hanging around for a possible Tyson rematch and massive $30 million pot.

    The date Lewis fought Vitali on was originally meant to be a Lewis/Tyson doubleheader. Tyson-Maskaev, Lewis-Johnson HBO PPV. However, Tyson pulled out. This is when Klitschko came into the picture. He fights on Lewis's undercard to set up a POSSIBLE match between the two. But Johnson pulls out so Lewis accepts Klitschko (to stop himself losing a fortune on the promotion).

    For people that say they had the same preperation is just ridiculous.

    Vitali was 31, a young hungry challenger trying to redeem the Klitschko name. He was seen as a coward. Wlad had just been splattered by Sanders. Lewis was 38, hadn't fought for a year, and spent that time contemplating retirement. Clearly their careers were in completely opposite places. Vitali was entering the fight of his life, with everything to gain and nothing to lose. Lewis was trying to save himself from losing a fortune against a guy that meant nothing to him.

    Had Lewis lost there's no doubt there would have been a rematch. He didn't. And didn't need to prove anything against a fighter from a different generation to him.
    I agree with everything you say fella...great reply......so in YOUR FACE LEWIS HATERS......for christ sakes.....LEWIS was a brilliant Champion and top 10 ALL-TIME GREAT......and he had a touch of CLASS about him inside and outside the ring.....so you sad peasents who diss this GREAT man should grow up


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